[AZ-Observing] Re: Deep Impact
- From: Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:16:43 -0700
Thanks for your reply Frank.
How did it look to you? Was it very faint, faint, easy, bright?
From a recent LX200 list posting
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I dropped in my 32mm Wide Angle Meade, and along with the chart
on the Sky & Telescope website, and current Ephemerides off the
Harvard Comet website, I found a very small fuzzball, that I thought
might be a faint galaxy, at first. It was located very close to the
chart, and the RA & DEC readout on the Autostar, placed it very
close to the Harvard Websites location.
I then dropped in my StellaCam II, with the 3.3 focal reducer - -
and - - there she be !!!!!!! Definitely no galaxy.
It had a very define nucleus. Short and fuzzy tail. I tried to
hook up my Sony handheld Super 8 Camcorder, (1995 model, OLD, but
still works) to the back of my 12" monitor, and I couldn't get
it recorded. Have to figure some other way to video it.
Any suggestions?
Mike Lanska
Beautiful Simi Valley, California
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Jeff
At 16:15 -0700 6/24/05, messier wrote:
>I saw it very clearly in my 11" C11 on Memorial Day while camping on the
>Rim. I used a 40 mm Plossl.
>
>Frank
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> If anyone has success in seeing the Deep Impact comet this weekend or
>> next week, I would be interested in hearing about it, how it looked,
>> what sized telescope was used and any other information regarding the
>> observation.
>>
>> From several lists people seem to be having a hard time seeing it,
>> however they can image it with a CCD camera.
>>
>> I suspect clear dark skies are most important for this object. I
>> tried last weekend from the mountains, but the moon was way too
>> bright so there was no chance of me finding it.
>>
>> Jeff
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